Understanding teamwork and leadership: the role of self-construal

Dr Ben Voyer discusses his latest research on how self-construals affect behaviour.

In my research, I study how self-construal can help us to understand how we behave in teams or act as leaders or followers. Self-construal is concerned with how individuals perceive themselves as being psychologically independent or interdependent from others. This tension between a desire to be unique, and […]

Claiming ‘multiculturalism has failed’ is dangerous

Recent terrorist attacks in Paris and Copenhagen have prompted some, including UKIP leader Nigel Farage, to point the finger at the supposed failure of multiculturalism. In this article, Caroline Howarth writes that these arguments by Farage and others are dangerous: they feed a powerful discourse that presents diversity, immigration and marginalised communities themselves as ‘the problem’, which may provoke hostility and violence.

Android science and the utility of simulating ourselves

Kevin Corti, PhD candidate at the Department of Social Psychology, discusses how android science has developed since Alan Turing’s foundational work.

In the early stages of World War II, as the Allies escalated the intensity of their military campaign against the Axis powers, the mathematician Alan Turing and a British cryptanalyst team at Bletchley Park waged a secret battle against […]

Social Psychology at LSE in the 1960s

As LSE’s Department of Social Psychology begins 50th anniversary celebrations, Professor Martin Bauer looks back at the 1960s and the emergence of Social Psychology as an academic department at LSE.

In the early 1960s, LSE was made up of a college of academic staff who contributed to a programme of courses across Economics, Social Administration, Geography, History, International Studies, Language Studies, […]